First-person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has grossed more than $1bn (£625m) in worldwide retail sales since its November launch, raking in more cash during its first five days on sale than blockbuster movie Avatar managed to do, the game's developer has claimed.
Over half of the game’s global sales revenues – some $ …

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It's a question how good either were

MW2 has gotten endless howls from the PC crowd due to the changes in the multiplayer, while the console ports have fared better. But basically I felt let down, the single player I finished in one long evening, and the multiplayer is more like Call of Duty 4.1, not that big a change.

"Avatar" I think has this "Titanic" effect going on. During it's release people raved about Titanic, a lot of it due to the special effects, and today it isn't thought of so well. Ghostbusters also comes to mind, although I think that was more audience effect, seeing it on TV deflates it. I thought Avatar was a pretty stupid movie, yes, groundbreaking effects, but I honestly would have titled it "Dances With Wolves meets the Smurfs in Vietnam."

Don't...

My efforts

Yeah let's see how their next release does, after I try to discourage everyone from buying it using any means necessary.

Yeah I'm a disgruntled PC gamer. But you would be too if you were knifed through a wall, had taken an average of 15 minutes to join a game server, constantly found that connection speed matched that of an ISDN line or worse when using 50mb cable, grenaded a billion times by people firing their stupid M203 randomly over the map, and finally missed countless amount of kills because the enemy has the ability to go prone instantly without disruption. And does. Frequently. Leaving me angry and bitter.

And yet, I can't leave the bloody game alone....I'm victim to my own stupidity.

Avatar

pointless attitude

well that's a pretty stupid attitude. Do you go through life depriving yourself of enjoyment over some childish belief that taking the equivalent of the moral high ground has any effect on anybody but you. How sad indeed

Nonsense

Since when was refusing to see someone's film on the grounds that they previously made something crap some kind of martyrdom? Surely it's the opposite - it's just good sense to avoid things you won't enjoy. Particularly as James Cameron shows every sign of an artiste who's become infected with a belief in his own hype.

I refuse to see any film starring Meg Ryan (unless the title contains the words "Saw", "Hostel" or "Entrenching Tool Rampage" - still waiting), and she's only an actress, much less responsible for her films than James Cameron. But I'll still defend that as a rational position to the death.

lulz

a load of cod

Biggest anti climax of the year, MW2. Thought it was a load of over rated bollocks. Took me 6 hours to complete and i'm crap at these games. Needless to say, it got traded in before I even tried the multiplayer - knew it was just going to be more of the same.

no dedicated servers on multiplayer

I don't understand this story

You can't compare like for like. They are not alike. The Avatar 'game' is a pile of pants afterall.

@jonmonkeys.

Ahh someone who has played online.

Twin shotguns. Which ever cock jockey in IW thought that gem up. With dolphin diving, frog jumping, bunny rabbits on speed and two shotguns (and because they are secondary weapons you can also have noob tubes.) There is no point playing online. Assuming you can actually get online. Worst money I spent.

Maybe they can spend all this profit on some brain cells to combat the same thing that riddled BF 2 around 9 years ago.

bad comparisons

On the one hand you have a film where sales (of 5-7 quid a ticket) over a short period are limited by availability of screens/seats, and availability of people's free time, and on the other you have a game selling for 25-45 quid (standard version), where big demand was expected and plenty of products produced and made available to be delivered and sold in stores, and most crucially, it is possible for everyone who wants it to buy it in the same day, assuming there's enough till staff in shops and postmen not on strike.

Well...

Personally, I seem to stand alone, but I like MW2 and loath Avatar. Yes MW2 has some balance issues, but then even back in the days of Quake and UT, there were plenty of glitches exploited by players of dubious morality, never put me off them then, and I find nothing so satisfying as killing OMA/Noobtubers on MW2. True, people with a pair of shotguns walking round a corner can kill you before you do anything - so you find other routes that don't leave you in such a vulnerable position, or bang the room before you enter, whatever - there's always a way.

And still running around using a SCAR-H with a silencer, I don't use any of the common exploit tactics to defeat them either.

I also agree with poster 1 - excpet for I'd substitute Vietnam with Fern Gully but still

Well...

What I'd love to know is that this big thing happened that turned 90% of PC gamers off IW and MW2 by removing dedi servers, no community tools etc and el Reg report nothing. Nothing about pre-order being cancelled and it costing them serious money but with zero response from IW or Rob Bowles. ANd we had nothing in El Reg about it? Strange for such an uproar in the tech community.

MW2

To be fair to the people playing this on the PC, yes the port is horrible, and the multiplayer is a pile of pants. I'd be pretty pissed if i'd spent £40 of my hard-earned and been delivered that.

However, playing it on the 360, the single player is still biblically short, but the multiplayer is what makes this game brilliant. With the addition of the Special Ops multiplayer games, it's eaten up countless hours of my spare time. Easily got my money's worth out of it.

Although admittedly, I still keep getting mown down by countless players wielding those stupid dual-wielded shotguns.

MW2

Better graphics than MW1 but missing a certain wow factor, especially the C130 gunship section in the first one was truly amazing. Multiplayer is good except for the stupid dual shotguns..... time for another patch.

the moderatrix must have seen a different movie...

Whilst the moderatrix is concerned by a commenters wish to see Meg Ryan subjected to horrible slasher movie demise, I'm concerned that the moderatrix actually considers Titanic a "staggering cinematic acheivment"........ It was truly overblown, overpriced, histrionic dross, as is Avatar. An enormous budget and admittedly good SFX (in Titanic, those in Avatar seem to fall victim to the 3d movie cliches we've seen before, and whole lot of what could be termed rasterbation) does not a decent movie make. How about some plot please, some acting even, rather than the usual flavour of the month botoxed, surgically enhanced planks. When was the last time hollywood came up with genuinely intelligent Sci Fi ?

Do I?

I rather thought you wouldn't approve of that comment. I will say three things in my defence:

1.I am a rational human being, as is Meg Ryan, and I therefore have no wish for her to come to *genuine* harm. However, I consider wanting to watch someone suffer *simulated* violence a fairly understandable impulse after experiencing the very real suffering inflicted by sitting through a film starring Meg Ryan.

2. Her gender has nothing to do with it and I would feel the same way if she were male. (Normally, responding to an accusation that hasn't been made is a sure sign of he doth protest too much, but I know what was going through your head.)

3. Even I actually was a truly sick individual who actually thought that actors should be horribly tortured for making bad films, at least I still wouldn't think Titanic was a good film.